FLINT, MI -- Attorney Geoffrey Fieger plans to file a $50 million lawsuit after a woman was killed in Flint when the vehicle she was a passenger in was struck during a Michigan State Police chase.

Fieger plans to announce the lawsuit Tuesday, July 8, after 64-year-old Jacqueline Nichols was killed Thursday, July 3, at Pierson and North roads as a Michigan State Police trooper pursued a suspect through the intersection.

Nichols, 61-year-old Precious Cochrane and Robbie Head, 39, were on their way home from a beauty salon appointment when their vehicle was struck broadside by the trooper, Fieger claims. The crash happened roughly two blocks from Nichols' home.

Cochrane and Head were severely injured in the crash.

Fieger claims that the trooper was pursuing the suspect for a traffic violation without lights or sirens.

"It is well known that police take the public's lives into their hands when they engage in unnecessary and inappropriately conducted police chases," Fieger said in a statement.

However, Michigan State Police Capt. Gene Kapp, third district commander, said the preliminary investigation shows that the trooper was pursuing the suspect with the police vehicle's emergency lights and sirens activated.

Fieger claims that a person riding along with the trooper may have played a role in the crash.

"In this case, it is also terrible that the state police office had a family tag-along in his car," Fieger said. "Apparently, he was trying to impress the drive-along."

Kapp declined to identify the person riding along with the trooper but confirmed it was a civilian.

The state and the trooper will be targeted by the lawsuit, Feiger says.

Nichols was the second person killed during a Michigan State Police chase in Flint in the past month.